endearment

Domain: Universal Words

Part of speech: noun

[C,U] a word or an expression that is used to show affection: They were whispering endearments to each other. * 'Darling' is a term of endearment.

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Same word in other sources

endearmentEnglish›ChineseGetWord Corpus endearmentEnglish›ChineseMain Dictionary

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